The idea of building bunkers that can survive a nuclear bomb was supposed to be a niche business for Scott, who already made a decent living building storm shelters. Eight years ago, a woman asked him to build a really big storm shelter. "I'm like, 'What do you mean by really big?'...
Maybe it’s the threat ofclimate change-fueled natural disasters, the turbulentpolitical climate, or a reaction to Kim Kardashian’s recentviolent jewelry heist, but companies are doing big business offering multi-million dollar shelters to the super-rich. These shelters are equipped with protection ...
Another company, Del Mar, California-basedVivos, makes "underground survival shelters" that it calls "the backup plan for humanity" in the event of a catastrophe like nuclear war or economic collapse. Vivos sells private, underground bunkers big enough for families (roughly 2,200-square-feet o...
Its adherents take steps of varying degrees — from stocking several days’ supply of food and water to erecting concrete bunkers — to prepare for the mass disaster they believe is coming. You may recognize some of them as the subjects of the reality series “Doomsday Preppers.” When that ...
it is original ideas that make society tick. The work and workers required to realise these ideas, meanwhile, are invisible, or unnecessary. But in the months, years, and decades after they hole up in their bunkers, how do they expect they’ll maintain reliable access to the support...
Clyde Scott didn't expect to be so busy or so popular. He started building underground bunkers during the Obama administration for clients who feared the government would take away their property and their guns. But the election of Donald Trump has only increased business by bringing him a ...